Thanks for your advice Alex, yes i agree, will ask Shopify if this was them (re default settings) or if my migrators have been over enthusiastic but contrary to best practices.

Have a great BH weekend !

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Dan

Hi

I've just had best practice site migration completed for my old e-commerce store into a Shopify environment and I see in GSC that it's reporting my standard pages as blocked by robots.txt, such as these below examples. Surely I don't want these blocked ? is that likely due to my migrators or s defaults setting with Shopify does anyone know? :

t&c's

shipping policy

pricing policy

privacy policy

etc

So in summary:

1. Shall I unblock these?

2. What caused it Shopify default settings or more likely my migration team?

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Dan

Hi

All sounds very strange - when you look in GSC and refine down to the page level looking at a few individiual pages such as the ones you know havnt been showing up in results (over the time period this has been going on) are you seeing massive drops in impressions and clicks ? I think worth checking this just to double check that Google is dropping them out of the index for sure rather than it being simply a ranking position drop.

Thanks for commenting on my thread too

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Dan

HI Thomas

First of all thanks so much for taking the time to respond in so much detail i really appreciate it

For your info we are not deploying hreflang for this project/client since one of the country sub sites is actually on its own ccTLD and the foreign language site on a sub folder - we don't have a problem with the various languages ranking in other countries, in fact consider it better that way since some will use English in Turkey and Turkish in Turkey etc etc. However this clients developer has added hreflang fields so can add in the future if want or need to depending how things work out with it but internatinal seo strategist on this project advised not to use it in our particular circumstance.

Re Yoast Social Accounts:

The main English .com site does have all these socials entered into the Accounts tab/page of Yoast , i presumed it made sense to add the foreign language socials to the Accounts tab/page in the foreign language sub sites too BUT have been told by someone who had done similar that it screwed everything up. So just wanting to check if you agree here and they should be left empty since when they say **MAIN social accounts **they do mean just the English in the .com Yoast Accounts section and leave the Accounts tab in foreign language sub sites Yoast empty.

The articles you provided such as Yoast etc are all very good and i did look at these but none seem to address this specific question which is what im look to clarify, any ideas ?

Many Thanks

Dan

No worries Dirk

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Dan

Thats great thanks Lynn, i just had a response from Moz too saying they will phase out GB so use UK ideally

Thanks everyone

Hi Dirk,

Thanks so much for confirming that !

So is it simply an error that Moz Analytics campaign set up keeps it as an option ?

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Dan

Hi

What's the difference search engine wise and which one should I choose, i presume GB since covers entire British landmass whereas UK excludes Ireland according to political definition, is it the same according to Google (& other engines) ?

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Dan

Just so you know other advice ive got in regard to this is to leave foreign language sub site Yoast plug account fields empty

Hi Thomas are you able to confirm re my reply ?

many thanks

dan

Hi

How long aproximately does G take to pass authority via a 301 from an old page to its new replacement page ?

Does Moz Page Authority reflect this in its score once G has passed it ?

All Best
Dan

Thanks again really is a big help

Ive read that correct charsets are important, i take it that plugin handles that correctly ?

Do you know if plugin should work fine in WP Multisite environment with network childs domain mapped with their cctlds ?

Re: "using x-default and removing the canonical is nonsense" The dev just meant if going down route of NOT using canonicals AND using x-default in the hreflang then would need to suppress Yoast in those instances.

Re:  "In my example, I used two very similar (if not the same langs), however there are things that change, but those are minimal (take as an example a car "hood", in England a "bonnet"). As those are such minimal changes, I don't think a specific version for GB is needed if you are already serving a US version (that's up to you)."    Would you say the same if phrases containing these regional variations (hood vs bonnet) were on your target kw list ? Since i find that whilst Google is getting better at semantic relationships between words i think that they do need to be specifically targeted/appear in content & meta data in order to rank for them, or at least increase chances of ranking for them.

Also re your final paragraph 'car repair centers' would be a logical target kw for such a page so i would have thought it would be beneficial to create 2 versions of this page, 1 for US targeting US spelling & 1 for UK targeting UK spelling (centers vs centres), rather than 1x English to serve both UK & US audiences

Also I would have thought it would be useless showing a list of US car repair centers to UK visitors ?

Sorry for more questions, think that should be it now & thanks again

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Dan

Thats great thanks Lynn, i just had a response from Moz too saying they will phase out GB so use UK ideally

Thanks everyone

Thanks Oleg !

Yes 'links to site' is of value to me (although i do have other link tools to see this info i like to see what Google is perceiving). But ideally as much of the rest of GSC data too, such as indexed pages etc etc

There is a profile set up in GSC for all the language versions, its just the Turkish version (the only version in a sub-folder) is not being populated with any data so must be something missing in the set up maybe/not properly completed, such as something required for properly finish the set up/integration of a sub-folders on GSC so that it shows data.

Any idea as to how i fix or find out how to fix ?

Many Thanks

Dan

Hi Dirk,

Thanks so much for confirming that !

So is it simply an error that Moz Analytics campaign set up keeps it as an option ?

All Best

Dan

ok thanks Kate

Seems a tad strange though since all known paid channels being reported elsewhere.

It would be good to know if theres a way to find out whats causing it since all paid campaigns, PPC, emails, display, etc etc being reported in other places and traffic from this 'Google Other' source is 4x current organic search traffic

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Dan

The problem with Products is that they are are hard to update the content for since they usually (but not always) have an 'evergreen' description. Hence a great way to keep the content fresh is to enable customer reviews and comments on the product page and then encourage customers (via your 'post sale touch points' such as follow up emails saying thanks for your order, hows the product ?) to leave a review of the product (& incentivise them to do so via loyalty points/future discounts).  This will mean the product page is continually populated with new fresh content that is also user generated demonstrating customer/user engagement hence showing 'signs of life' from real people too.

In that case i would be looking to closer associate the reviews to the page content.

I would also concentrate on using the blog etc to generate fresh content and deep link (where directly appropriate and helpful for user) from the blog post to the product pages and of course category pages too (re your response and factoring in Chris' good comments too).  Regular fresh unique content (associated/tied to an author & publisher) of a high quality (hence likely to earn social amplification) linked to the relevant categories and product pages (where appropriate & helpful) will do far more toward those pages being perceived well by G than overly concentrating on changing the content in the category & product pages

Hope this helps

ps - I'm going to Worthing for a 40th tomorrow coincidentally (just checked your profile)

Hi Roy

It depends how similar the products are, if they are simply variations of the same products then i would just list the 1 product and then give multiple options for the different variations.  For example 1 product page for 'Suede Shoes' with selectable further options/variations of that product i.e. Colours available (blue, red, pink) and size available (8, 9, 10 etc)

Hope that helps

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Dan

thanks Tim, have already looked at that though and im here talking about username not page name